Hearthpwn

Introduction

I've been looking around some of the old Spirit cards from Rastakhan's Rumble and landed on this Zoo Priest list thank to a lot of new additions from Scholomance Academy. For a class know to have low card draw, all of ours is tutored so with correct mulligan the deck has consistency.

Stats

Had amazing success so far at D10 and I'll see how far I can take it up to legend. Here are my hsreplay stats:

83% Overall winrate
25% Warlock
25% Druid
17% Rogue
8%, Mage, Priest, Shaman, Paladin

Gameplan:

Take board early to eventually take down your opponent through face damage from minions. You gotta learn when to trade or hit face to win, 1 drops are key to snowball games.

Card Choices:

Bwonsamdi, the Dead - Hand refill for a class with poor card draw. Even without Spirit of the Dead value it thins out a lot of the deck as well as tutoring Northshire Cleric for even more gas

Spirit of the Dead - Great body to guarantee buff targets next turn, potential to generate value against more difficult matchups. Use it more as a buff target rather than to generate value in most matchups unless Bwonsamdi, the Dead is already in hand

Lorekeeper Polkelt - Tutors out Bwonsamdi, the Dead to draw the rest of the 1 drops plus anything generated by Spirit of the Dead. Following this we draw Psyche Split which curves out beautifully wuth Bwonsamdi, the Dead in hand. He also tutors for another win condition in the form of Loatheb once we have a threatening board.

Power Word: Shield - I was sad to see this card nerfed, however it benefits this deck massively to stick early snowball minions. It facilitates a lot of the slower tempo minions which buff other minions such as Shadow Ascendant and Dragonmaw Overseer in the early game especially. It can also be used at turn 1/2 with any other minion to ensure you hit an Extra Arms or Gift of Luminance. It also activates High Abbess Alura for high rolls with Psyche Split

Dragonmaw Overseer - Turn 2: coin Dragonmaw Overseer into Power Word: Shield. Turn 3: Gift of Luminance = EZ win. I had 2 10-10 minions with Shadow Ascendant by turn 5 against a druid

Mindrender Illucia - Secondary form of Loatheb, could also be a combo disrupter or to generate value.

Holy Nova - seems a bit out of place, sometimes we need removal but its mostly for Northshire Cleric triggers. Its great against all the Zoolock and DH on ladder.

Sethekk Veilweaver - Use this to generate healing if we fall behind against other aggro

Kul Tiran Chaplain/Kabal Talonpriest - looking for the optimal 2 drop, if you have any other suggestions please share.